Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "COATLICUE (the serpent-skirted goddess)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. The creator goddess of the earth and mankind and the female aspect of OMETEOTL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. She has 400 sons, the stars of the southern sky, and is the mother of the goddess COYOLXAUHQUI. Later, as a widow, she was impregnated by a ball of feathers as she was sweeping the serpent mountain of Coatepec near Tula. Her other children decapitated her as punishment for her dishonor, but she gave birth to the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI who subsequently slew Coyolxauhqui and her brothers, thus banishing night for day. According to tradition Coatlicue feeds off human corpses. She is also recognized as the patron deity of florists.... |
Goddess name "COVENTINA" | Roman / Celtic / British | Tutelary and water goddess of uncertain affinities. Little is known of Coventina other than that she was a purely local British goddess of some importance. She is best observed from the period of the Roman occupation, at which time she shows a clåśśical influence but is clearly Celtic in origin.... |
God name "Caacrinolaas" | Greek | Grand President of Hell, a god with the wings of a griffon. He inspires knowledge of the liberal arts and incites homicide. |
God name "Cabaguil" | Mayan | God who helped create the world and mortals. Mayan |
Deities name "Cacodaemons" | Greek | Minor deities, one of whom it was believed was attached to each mortal from his birth as a constant companion and acting as a sort of messenger between the gods and men. |
Goddess name "Caelestis" | Carthaginian / North Africa | moon goddess. The Romanized form of the Punic goddess TANIT. Elsewhere she became syncretized into the cult of APHRODITE-VENUS. Annual games were held in her honor. She was brought to Rome in the form of an abstract block of stone (like that of KYBELE from Pessinus) and became popular there during the early part of the third century AD; in this guise she was known as the mighty protectress of the Tarpeian hill.... |
Goddess name "Cailleach Bheur" | Celtic / Scottish | Goddess of Winter. Depicted as a blue-faced hag who is reborn on October 31 (Samhain). She brings the snow until the goddess BRIGIT deposes her and she eventually turns to stone on April 30 (Beltine). In later times the mythical, witch-like figure of Black Annis probably derived from her.... |
Goddess name "Caillech aka Cailleach" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | Goddess of Winter and the goddess in her destroyer aspect. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
Goddess name "Caillech/ Cailleach/ Carlin/ Mala/ Liath" | Irish / Scotland / Manx | A goddess of Winter & the goddess in her destroyer aspect |
Goddess name "Caireen" | Ireland | Protective mother goddess and patron of children. Ireland |
Goddess name "Cally Berry" | Ireland | Maiden goddess who, whilst her husband grew old and grey, she remained young and beautiful. Ireland |
Goddess name "Calounger" | Brazil | death goddess and / or Goddess of the sea Brazil |
God name "Cama" | Indian | The God of love and marriage. Indian |
God name "Camaxtli aka Mixcoatl-Camaxtli" | Aztec | A god of hunting, war, fate and fire and one of the four creator gods, who made the earth. He leads human sacrifices and warriors who have been slain in battle to the eastern sky, where they become stars. Aztec |
Goddess name "Camenae" | Roman | Goddesses of springs, wells and fountains, or water nymphs of Venus . They were wise, and sometimes gave prophecies of the future. There were four Camenae: Carmenta, Egeria, Antevorta, and Postvorta. Roman |
Goddess name "Campestres aka Matres Campestris" | Britain | Campestres aka Matres Campestris, the Three Mothers, triple goddess of fertility and abundance usually depicted as holding bread and fruits and personifying the ancestor mothers of a family. Britain |
God name "Camulos" | Celtic / British | war god. Probably the deity from which the name of Camulodunum [Colchester, England] derives. Known from inscriptions and coinage bearing the symbol of a boar.... |
Goddess name "Camunda" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. A distinct form of DURGA. The name is said to be a contraction of the names of the demonic beings Camda and Munda killed by her. She is also recognized among the SAPTAMATARA and ASTAMATARA mothers as well as sometimes being regarded as a NAVASAKTI. She stands variously on a lion, an owl and a corpse. Attributes: a large and varied åśśortment of objects are held. Three-eyed. Also YAMI.(2) Goddess. Buddhist. She stands upon a corpse. Color: red. Attributes: cup and knife.... |